The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-03-11
MISSING LINKS.

Belle A Donough is the name oil
drug clerk in New Jersey town.
Churches in this country are eshma-
ted to use $4,000 gallons OF wine every
year for sacramen,al purposes.
A German entomologist declares
that spiders destroy more insect ene'
u.ies Of trees than do all the insect
eating birds.
The conscience fund in the treasury
at Washington is approaching the
round sum of a quarter OF million OF
dollars.
Philadelphia housekeepers, tired OF
vain effort to get good servants, are
now experimenting with colored help
from the south.
A wealthy New York physician de-
clares it as his belief that ''the oyster
is the most healthy article OF food
known to man.
There is an artesian well 1000 feet
deep in Aberdeen Neb., that throws out
numbers of fish that look like the ordi-
nary brook minnow.
A soldier who ascended the Pyramid
of Cheops recently, without guide,
slipped and fell to the base. He was
picked up a shapeless mass.
The crown prince of Germany is a
thrifty person and not ashamed to turn
an honest penny by selling milk from
his dairy farm near Berlin.
Capt Eads, the improver of the Mis-
sissippi delta, has bolght large tract
of land at Bar Harbor, Me-, with the
intention of building residence there.
An oak that was cut before Shakes
peare's day furnished bit of timber
now in use as a bench in an English
farmers kitchen. The timber did duty
az a roof beam in church for 364
years. 1t is still as sound as sound can
be.
A boy iu Runnells county, Louisiana
captured a small animal known to
naturaists as stoat, species OF er-
mine. Its fur is white, and it is re-
markable for its length, being able to
enter a rat-hole, and is fourteen inches
long.
The Shasta county California; Indi-
ans have superstition that cat fish
were put into the river for the special
purpose of killing off the Indians.
| They eat most other kinds, but throw
back into the river all the cat fish they
catch.
Bonvin, the painter, arose at his mar
riage banquet and addressing his wife
in an inflated style, remarked "Never
forget, my wife, that you have entered
a family of the gowr and sword. Was
not my mother a seamstress and my
father in the rural police p
A recent issue of the Electrical Re
oieao gives the details of an invention
that is destined TO work radical
change in the hotel system of waking
guests. 1t is an electrical annunciator,
working both ways, from rooms to
Office as well as office TO rooms, aud is
particularly acceptable, as by its means
one guest may be awakened in the
morning without arousng everyone
else on the floor. An instantaneous
alarm can also be sounded by it in
every room in the hotel.
An old Mississippi pilot tells the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat that the affec-
tion exhibited by Mark Twain and his
venerable mother, now a resident of
Keokuk, Iowa, is very refreshing. She
always had firm faith in her son, Sam
uel, and says of him "He was always
a good boy, Samuel was, though prone
to be mischievous. He's always the
same to me-the best son mother
ever had"
| A Piute Indian in Virginia City fur
nishes the following local price list for
game: "Whitey man pay um two
bits for teal duck and four bit for NAL
lard, maybe Piute bring um. White
woman kick like mule no wans to
pay um Piute only one bit for mallard
and four bit for goosen. Injun no sell
um goosen less than one dollar quarter.
Piute want um four bits, one for big
jack Liability and tw, bits for little"
| Among old papers recently found in
Kingston, n. Y. was letter wrltten
in 1916 by James Hasbrouck to his
friend Peter Van Gaasbeek, of Esopus.
In the letter he writes that Gen. Lee
has erected battery in ''the Broad
Way, near the Bolding Green" Is it
possible, says the New York Sun, that
our historic Bowling was not a howl
ing green after all, or was James Has
brouck simply poor speller?
An Albany, n Y, lady suspected
that her cook was playing sweet with
he grocer's clerk A maid who play
ed spy reported that the clerk brought
the cook French candy every day,
wrapped IN tin foil The maid pro.
cured two specimens of the ''French
candies and the maid aud mistress
each ate one. Within half an houl
they were well repaid for their curiosi
ty, for the supposed candies proved tc
be yeast cakes.
A very old Indian relates that about
forty years ago battle extending oyel
several days, each having about one
thousand lodges, was fought in the
vicinity of Portland, in Trail. Re
mains are still visible of trenches sunl
by Chippewas, who were victorious
but lost about one thousand ponies tha
the Sioux took in their retreat to Devil
lake. They had flint-lock muskets
aud the number killed was large OF
both sides.
Nine. Nilsson's reported marriage t.
Count Miranda is off, if the New Yorl
Tom Topics is correctly informed. l
seems the prima donna preferred to re
main first lady to playing second violil
I" an adventurer, though he had
! charming daughter. AT the same tim
as she is not adverse to little gsmbl
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